Brooklyn Vegan — photos by Jessica Amaya M. Ward/Yo La Tengo at Prospect Park - 8/7/12 M. Ward has been touring internationally all year in support of his new album, A Wasteland Companion, and after having played Webster Hall back in May, he... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Bloc Party at Lollapalooza 2012 (more by James Richards IV) Tame Impala at Lollapalooza 2012 (more by James Richards IV) Yo La Tengo at Maxwell's on Hanukah 2011 (more by Ryan Bruchman) today in NYC * Diego Garcia @ Joe's... more info

Guardian Music — From handbags and gladrags to white socks and flip flops, here are your sartorial soundsLast week's call for songs about clothes prompted some winning styles, after a lot of rummaging around for forgotten rags and prized combos.Clothes are of course ... more info

Guardian Music — (Damnably)It's hard to say if Cincinnati four-piece Wussy are hyped or not. On the one hand, you have heavyweight American rock critic Robert Christgau comparing them to the Beatles and the Stones, and saying they're the best American band of the las... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — The Los Angeles Times reviews Jesse Jarnow's new book, Big Day Coming: Yo La Tengo and the Rise of Indie Rock. The The Arty Semite recommends five graphic novels about Israel worth reading. Ploughshares explores Philadelphia's literary community. Bil... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Page Views lists the LeBron James characters in literature who tend to polarize readers. The Awl interviews Jesse Jarnow about his new book, Big Day Coming: Yo La Tengo and the Rise of Indie Rock. The New York Times profiles... more info

Popdose — As a rock snot, music writer, and Young White Male, you’re kind of supposed to already know everything there is to know about Yo La Tengo. It’s like that list of books they give you in high school to familiarize yourself with, because some colleg... more info

Guardian Music — Barbican, LondonFor fans of jangly, emotionally acute indie-rock, Big Star are an ur-band, although their third album, variously dubbed Third and Sister Lovers, is apt to separate the mere admirers from the cult devotees. Recorded in chaos, never pro... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Charlie Horse (aka Yo La Tengo) @ Le Poisson Rouge last night (via) As many guessed, Lambchop opener Charlie Horse was in fact Yo La Tengo. Lambchop does it again tonight (4/20) at The Bell House in Brooklyn. No opener,... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — M. Ward at Newport Folk Fest 2011 (more by Jim Brueckner) As mentioned, M. Ward is set to kick off a tour with Lee Ranaldo in May which comes to NYC for a sold out show at Webster Hall on... more info